Chapter 102.2: The Destiny Unordinary Duo
Just as Cheng Qisheng was frantically patting both of them on the head (Ma Yuetian had been startled as well) while preparing to issue a second divine oracle to the rescuers, she suddenly sensed that something was not quite right.
Zhu Feifan’s faith chain had begun to glow faintly.
Cheng Qisheng: “?”
What did that mean?
Had he awakened a supernatural ability from hunger?
It didn’t take long for Cheng Qisheng to find out what ability Zhu Feifan had awakened.
His face—the dark, rough, naturally aged-looking face of an agricultural student—began expanding outward.
His powerful arms, despite his hunger, also began sprouting fine, dense scales.
As the person holding him, Ma Yuetian could clearly feel his weight increasing at an astonishing speed. Soon, he was becoming too heavy for her to carry.
She quickly stood up and moved aside.
Although surprised, Ma Yuetian wasn’t panicked. Having continually received blessings from their God, she simply widened her eyes and watched as the companion who had looked perfectly human only moments ago transformed in the blink of an eye into a strange sea monster.
Because the ship couldn’t fit him, half of his body hung down into the sea.
In the end, what appeared before Ma Yuetian was a gigantic sea monster about four meters long and eight meters tall, fat and elongated, with a mole on top of its head, a squid-like head, a turtle-shell-covered body, nine limbs extending outward, and a round, chubby tail at the back.
The giant sea monster looked utterly shocked as it opened its mouth wide, making the eight fangs—each as long as a human arm and lined with barbs—even more conspicuous.
Ma Yuetian: “…”
She looked at the sea monster’s teeth in front of her, then lowered her head and looked at the matching fang in her own hand.
That appearance… It was unmistakably the very same sea monster that had destroyed their ship and then escaped!!!
Ma Yuetian’s mind was still processing it, but her body had already tensed on its own, as though she couldn’t wait to draw her blade and beat it up the very next second.
The two of them lived on the same ship and sparred constantly. Zhu Feifan had never been a match for Ma Yuetian. The moment he saw her expression, his entire body automatically tensed as well, and his four long claws shot up to cover the top of his head.
A pair of long, narrow compound eyes, each with four pupils, stared timidly at her.
That familiar defensive posture instantly brought Ma Yuetian to her senses.
“Feifan?”
“Grrr!!”
“You—you—you…”
“Grrr grrr!!”
“Oh, Great God, is this a blessing from You because You couldn’t bear to see us starving? You actually granted him the ability to transform into a sea monster… So it was about four meters long.”
“Grrr grrr~ grrr grrr~ grrr~”
Ma Yuetian: “Thank You, Great God! Stop showing off and hurry up, hurry up! Can you get into the sea now? Go catch some fish for us to eat!”
Zhu Feifan swished his tail in the water. After confirming that he felt no pain, he twisted his enormous body and plunged headfirst into the sea.
There were fish in the deeper waters, but the moment they saw the giant sea monster, they immediately began fleeing for their lives.
Zhu Feifan immediately remembered that ever since their encounter with that sea monster, they had started experiencing Bad Luck. Not only had they rarely managed to catch any fish, they had barely encountered any other sea monsters either.
Could it be that he had already received the blessing of their God back then, and had already possessed the ability to transform into a sea monster?
Perhaps his body had been slowly changing ever since then. Zhu Feifan himself hadn’t noticed, but these fish and other sea monsters might have sensed it. That was why they had been avoiding their Destiny Unordinary all this time.
Sure enough!
It had all been a trial from their God!!
The sea-monster version of Zhu Feifan, blessed by their God, was incredibly fast. With a powerful twist of his monstrous body, he immediately caught up with a three-meter-long fish, bit down on it, and quickly swam back up, spitting the huge, fat fish onto the deck.
Seeing Ma Yuetian’s delighted expression, he happily wagged his round, chubby, scale-covered tail, then extended a claw and cut the fish in half, gesturing for everyone to have half each.
Hahaha, now that he’d become a sea monster, eating raw food was no problem at all. They could even save some firewood.
Thank You, Great God!
Zhu Feifan swallowed half the fish in one bite, then happily dove back down to continue hunting. Before long, he had caught more than a dozen large fish, practically filling the entire deck.
The two of them grew happier and happier as they ate, eating half and setting half aside. They were being positively extravagant.
Cheng Qisheng, watching from the side: “…”
They weren’t considering the nature of this ability at all!
How long could this ability be used? How was it activated? What triggered it? Could Zhu Feifan turn back into a human? Did activating the ability require a massive amount of energy? What if he happened to be on the seafloor when he changed back from a sea monster into a human?
The two of them hadn’t considered any of it.
They had decided that this was simply a power bestowed upon them by their God, and happily began enjoying it.
Moreover, during the brief moment Cheng Qisheng spent asking Aether for information about the ability, the two of them had already invented a new way to play with it.
—The “garbage ship” was slowly lifted up from the surface of the sea.
The sea-monster version of Zhu Feifan carefully adjusted his angle, positioning his “turtle shell” so that the entire ship rested perfectly on his back.
Up on the ship, Ma Yuetian twisted all kinds of strange odds and ends into ropes and, with Zhu Feifan’s cooperation, tied the entire ship securely to him.
Then she grabbed the sail with one hand.
“I’m ready!!”
The sea-monster version of Zhu Feifan shot forward in an instant.
The waves were forced backward by his monstrous body, and across the entire stretch of sea, the only sound that could be heard was Ma Yuetian’s excited cheering.
“Woohoo!!!!”
“Hahahahahahaha!! This is awesome!!!!”
With one hand, she held onto the sail, while the other gripped a broken microphone they had fished out of the sea.
Laughing wildly as she shouted over the wind and waves, she yelled:
“Friends down there! How are you!!!”
“Grrr!!!”
“Now!! Please allow me to sing a song for my friend, the extraordinary Zhu Feifan: ‘When Our God Closes Your Door, She Will Surely Open a Window for You’!!”
“Grrr grrr!!!”
Holding a cup of flower tea, Cheng Qisheng silently watched as the one person and one “sea monster” began “speeding” across the sea at sea-monster speed while “singing” at the top of their lungs.
The two people who had been so weak from hunger just an hour ago were now so hyped that they were practically ready to hire someone to DJ for them.
Clearly, the two of them no longer needed rescuing.
Cheng Qisheng silently sent another divine oracle to the Blue Sea residents who had received the rescue mission, telling them to call off the mission.
Although the mission hadn’t been completed, she still instructed Aether to award them one-tenth of the rescue points.
The residents, who had just finished gathering a large amount of supplies and food and were flapping their wings with their luggage strapped to their backs, ready to set off: “?”
Although they had no idea why.
But since it was an oracle from their God, it had to be correct!
…
“According to the city lord’s description, there is a 97% chance that resident Zhu Feifan’s awakened ability is Beast Transformation.”
“When an ability user with this ability bathes in the blood of a beast, there is a certain chance that they will transform into that beast. This type of ability is considered an innate extraordinary ability. After transforming, the ability user needs to consume large amounts of food every day to replenish their energy.”
“An ability user can switch between a human form and a beast form through their own will. Before and after the transformation, the ability user will experience a period of weakness. The duration of this weakness depends on the individual’s physical condition.”
“It is recommended that ability users not remain in Beast Transformation for too long, otherwise their judgment may be affected by the beast’s instincts. For a first-order Beast Transformation ability user, it is best not to remain transformed continuously for more than three months.”
Cheng Qisheng looked at the report Aether had provided and understood.
So Zhu Feifan really was rather extraordinary. Beast Transformation was an innate ability, one that had been affecting him ever since he was born.
The dizziness he experienced whenever he saw animal blood was actually a sign that his Beast Transformation talent was stirring.
However, Dark Star had not yet awakened extraordinary energy at that time. So Zhu Feifan, whose Beast Transformation talent stirred whenever he saw blood, simply became an ordinary person who fainted at the sight of blood.
When they were on Velvet Star and Dazzling Star, he had chosen not to venture outside the city because he was “afraid of blood.”
It was only after Blue Sea arrived on Green Billow Star that he realized green blood didn’t make him dizzy, and he happily joined the exploration team.
But in reality, his so-called immunity to blood was merely because his ability was gradually developing.
Then, after being splattered all over with the blood of a sea monster, Zhu Feifan endured the prolonged period of weakness caused by Body Transformation during this preliminary stage of transformation, and finally awakened completely.
Now, he had already transformed into a happy sea monster living on Green Billow Star.
Every day, he carried the Heavenly Mandate Feifan around as he ran wild all over the place.
And then he went absolutely crazy catching fish.
The two starving youngsters practically wished they could cover an entire ship with dried fish, happily sleeping among piles of dried fish every day.
Seeing how much fun they were having, Cheng Qisheng had them prepare enough food supplies and first try to see whether Zhu Feifan could turn back into human form on his own.
Although Aether said that, theoretically, an extraordinary being should be able to transform back.
That did not mean there had never been cases where it failed.
Usually, it happened when they had remained in beast form for too long, allowing the beast’s mind to gradually overwhelm their human mind.
Once an ability user forgot that they were human, naturally, they could no longer transform back.
—Cheng Qisheng felt that Zhu Feifan’s current state, looking so delighted that he had completely forgotten about everything else, and being even more of a sea monster than an actual sea monster, was something they still needed to keep an eye on.
If he really could not transform back, Blue Sea Safe City had no environment suitable for a Green Billow Star sea monster to live in.
They would have to build a city gate directly connected to the sea and construct a seawater zone. For a major project like that, the sooner they started preparing, the better.
As Cheng Qisheng stroked the heads of her two believers, she mentally calculated whether, if things really did not work out and they had to build a seawater zone, they might as well raise some sea fish while they were at it.
The good news was that the seawater zone would not need to be built for the time being.
Zhu Feifan successfully transformed back, perfectly mastering the entire process of turning from a human into a sea monster, and from a sea monster back into a human.
After confirming that he was fine, Cheng Qisheng finally relaxed and let the two of them go have fun on their own.
…
The Destiny Unordinary duo, having received Our God’s divine oracle to “do whatever you want,” were extremely excited.
They decided that since they could move so fast now, it was time to fulfill their greatest wish from when they had been starving!!
The two of them managed to make it through Zhu Feifan’s more-than-ten-day period of weakness by eating dried fish.
—The Zhu Feifan version of the sea monster was back online.
Ma Yuetian sat on the deck, tossing water balls into the mouth of the sea monster version of Zhu Feifan.
“Pirates!!”
“We absolutely have to rob at least one pirate and take their loot for ourselves!!!”
